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Witchy Self Care & Mindfulness🌻🌿

Every Thursday, I take Pudge the fish a peanut butter sandwich. And today we were out of peanut butter! So I asked my sister what to give him, and she said a tuna sandwich! I can’t give Pudge tuna! Do you know what tuna is?

Night / Studio Ghibli’s Pom Poko / Art Direction Kazuo Oga / Director Isao Takahata (1994)

2. He is a very outspoken social activist who integrates lessons about prejudice, domestic violence, and political change into his music and is often on the frontlines at fundraisers and rallies. This includes speaking out publicly about homophobia, racism, and sexism despite ostensibly being a straight white dude. As mentioned above, his female fans appreciate a general lack of objectification in his music, and he is also known for acknowledging that his success is due to the influence of women of color.

3. As much as one can say this of a celebrity that one does not know, he comes across as kind and conscientious person. Part of the LGBTQ+ following comes from a recognition of their appreciation (people throw various pride flags at him to hold up during concerts as a kind of tradition at this point) and subsequent removal of pronouns from much of his music over the years (whether this was purposeful or not is unclear but still often noted). He has also consistently eschewed expensive VIP packages in favor of free meet-and-greets after shows.

4. His debut album was heavy on the morbidity and influenced by his obsession with Seamus Heaney poetry about bog bodies, so a sort of internet cult of personality sprang up referring to him as the “Bog Man” who may actually be several thousand years old. This is contrasted with his actual personality as a Certified Millennial who used a flip phone until a couple of years ago and makes frequent quality shitposts on Twitter. The juxtaposition of this makes the Interwebz go bananas.

He’s also made some attempts at including nonbinary/gender-neutral pronouns in his songs and activism! You can tell he’s not totally comfortable with it in the “please send help I do not think I’m doing this correctly” sense, but he’s committed himself to the learning process.

Also, this wasn’t noted above: this man has ZERO media filter. What you see is what you get. I took him some Irish sweets at a stagedoor meeting since he’d talked about the difficulty in finding them in the US, and his handler literally had to take the package away from him and go “not now, Andrew” because I distracted him and he started dismantling it right then and there to get to the cookies. You’re not gonna see Lady Gaga do that because she’s got a work persona. He doesn’t.